Solids before Milk - routine??

Last week plunket line suggested I change my bubs routine to solids before her milk. So far she seems to be coping but is only drinking between 400-500 mls over the day, and the reccommended amount is 600mls.
Her day goes like this:
7am Breakfast - cereal, fruit and toast
8.30 Milk
9 am bed
10 am - wakes (a catnap child!) Give her a drink of water and snack in here
11-30 - 12 Lunch
1.30 bed (only sleeps an hour)
3pm Milk
Has a snack in here somewhere - depends on her
5.30 Dinner
7 pm Milk and bed

Plunket said not to give her milk in her mid day wake time but have been giving her a bottle to help build up milk amount

What routines do other people have? Needing to see if on the right track. Also any suggestions for sleeping longer during the day. Thanks

Edited by aqua36

How old is your bubs?

Ella's routine is

Between 5-6am- milk and then back to sleep
7 wake up and b/fast
9 am milk and then sleeps until 10.30
10.30 small snack
12 lunch
1/1.30 milk
1.30-3 sleep
3 afternoon tea
5pm dinner
6.15 bath
6.30 milk, then story and in bed by 6.45

don't know how many mls she is currently drinking as she is b/f but I have got told by plunket to drop a feed...but I can't see that happening in the near future.

No ideas sorry how to extend the daytime sleeps, Ella seems to go through cycles where sometimes she will only sleep for 45 mins and other times will sleep up to 2 21/2 hrs (no rhyme or reason to it).

Edited by Mum2Ella

That sounds similar to our routine (we have just started solids before milk and its going well). Bella's routine is something like this...

6-6.30am Wake and breakfast
7.30 - 8am Bottle (200mls)
9am Nap
10.30am Snack
11.30am Lunch
12.30pm Bottle (200mls)
2-3pm Nap
3-4ish Snack
5.30pm Dinner
6.30pm Bottle (200mls) and bed

Lots of water offered throughout the day too (at every meal and snack time)

She has put on over a kilo in the last month since the change, so I'm happy. As for the day sleeps, can't help you - Bella is a crap sleeper during the day, but sleeps 12 hours at night, so I guess there has to be a bit of give and take!!

Hope that helps!

We are still giving Sam 4 bottles as she only drinks about 100-150ml per bottle. She has between 500-600mls in total a day too.
Plunket has told us to drop a bottle, but I just nodded at them and then did what is best for Sam.
It sounds like Kate's routine and intake is just fine to me

Interesting to see everyones routines, I am still giving milk before solids but think i will change soon. Also nice to see that others have little darlings who don't have big sleeps during the day. Lachie is good at night and has 2 one hour sleeps a day. He wakes up happy so I have got over worrying about it. But I hope that he might stretch them out sometime - probably dreaming!

I live in hope! I get the occassional longer one, like Mum2ella, said no rhyme or reason for it

You could try doing milk before breakie for a while still. Thats what I do (but more because its still a BF and I can do it in bed). If you do dinner slightly earlier that may get her to take more at the last feed too. Or just add formula on the cereal and some other dairy products like yoghurt/cheese. 500-600mls is fine, so I wouldn't worry as long as its about 500mls in total. Jakes a little older but has had this routine for about a month or so: (very much like Spencers actually)

6.45/7am - Up and breastfeed
8am - Breakfast (Cereal, toast, fruit)
9.45/10am - Morning Tea (Yoghurt / dairy food)
10-12 - Nap
12.30 Lunch (Meat/veges, dessert/fruit/mashed banana and avocado, curskets / crackers plus other finger food)
2ish - Bottle
2.30-3.30 - Nap
3.30/4 - Afternoon Tea (rice crackers / apple juice "ice block" / bikkies / fruit)
5pm - Dinner (Meat and veges, finger food etc)
6.30 - bath
6.45/7pm - Bottle and bed.

He is also getting ready for one nap I think -- he was doing about 1.5 hours in the morning - but now its 2-2.5 hours most days .... and his afternoon nap can be as short as 20 mins in the car some days (but usually an hour if we're at home).

T turns 8 months tomorrow, so I am thinking of how to attack the whole cutting out a bottle thing also. What have others done?

he loves his milk! He goes crazy for it first thing in the morning, do you think it would be ok to try miss the 11oclock bottle? he doesnt seem to be particularly interested in that one and I could do an earlier lunch ?

ok might try it and see how it goes, so better start snacks now too! such an ongoing process!